RE: Medical Design Online, feature on ebXML

[Rachel Foerster <rachelf@ix.netcom.com>]

Alan,

The sector of the health care industry that this article and this site
targets is the medical products supply chain....not patient administration.
Thus the HIPAA regulations do not apply to supply chain message exchanges.

Rachel

-----Original Message-----
From: AlanKotok@cs.com [mailto:AlanKotok@cs.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 7:13 PM
To: ebxml-awareness@lists.ebxml.org
Subject: Medical Design Online, feature on ebXML


TO:  MAE team

Rachel Foerster is featured in Medical Design Online, a VerticalNet site,
talking about ebXML and the health care industry's noticable lack of
participation.  See
http://www.medicaldesignonline.com/content/hubs/dir.asp?hub=news .

One possible reason for the health care world's lack of participation is the
legal requirement for health care providers and payers to comply with
administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. HIPAA's guidelines call for
implementing X12 transaction sets by 2002 for larger companies and 2003 for
the little guys.  While ebXML might be the right thing to do, HIPAA is the
law.

Just my two Yen from someone who has hung around too many HIPAA meetings.  I
hope everyone survived Tokyo.  Welcome back; best regards.

Alan Kotok
AlanKotok@cs.com
http://myfreeoffice.com/techjournalist/